If you go through the music of the era you like, there was slop there are well. Slop isn't new. You just like some of the music that survived that time period.

Its like with literature. We have "the classics." The range from a lot of different eras. And many of them are great, even if not for everyone. But then you go through sights like Project Gutenberg, where they are trying to make a digital copy of every book in the public domain, and you start to realize just how many books there were that no one talks about. And those are just ones that have survived.

If you want a great example of this with music: disco. Disco was essentially the pop of it's time. It's really where pop was born. Super popular for a short period of time. Lots of famous groups because of it.

How many can you name off the top of your head? How many do you think most people can name? Probably not many. Because a lot of it might have been good, but it was really that good.

I listen to metal. But I didn't get into it until my junior year of high school. So about 2006-2007. Before that I knew Metallica. I knew Black Sabbath. Things like that, but I never got into the genre until that point. I also realize that I only habe listened to a very small fraction of the bands from that era, because more of it is just buried and forgotten about.

We can take this a step further. I probably wouldn't be able to list 1/5th of the bands I listened to in the 2010s. A lot of those bands I might think about from time to time, but many of them that I actually enjoyed I'll probably remember. They were good, but didn't have much staying power. They weren't exceptional. They didn't influence anything. But I still enjoyed listening to them.

This is a shortened version to say that while I'm sure it's great to cum to your superior taste, music has had slop for a long time, and you're not better for not enjoying it. You're just boring.

Having taste = guides what you consume.

Talking about having taste = snobbery.

Fact.